Microsoft Office was the cause of my frustration because it literally never does what I want it to and yesterday was no exception. I had to make a stock chart/table of all her accessories that I had counted to day before and I was not sure how the best way to format it was. I'm not very good with excel so I switched back and forth from using that word and power point until I finally figured out that Excel was the best way to go. It took me basically the whole morning to figure this out and that frustrated me because I felt like I was taking hours to do something that could have been done in minutes. I was disappointed in myself because I feel like I was moving too slow and I want to go above and beyond her expectations for me. My stomach growing caused me to take a much needed break so I headed back to where I had gotten lunch the day before but this time I decided to give McDonalds a chance because they have these new deli select items that looked pretty good...major mistake. They screwed up my order not once but twice. First they gave me a regular chicken sandwich instead of the grilled chicken sandwich that I had ordered. Then they gave me a grilled chicken sandwich with mayo even after I had specifically asked for no mayo. Third times the charm I guess because I finally got my sandwich 20 min later. This put me on edge too because my boss probably thought I died yet again. When I finally tried the sandwich, it was not very good so much lunch was just as frustrating as the rest of my day.
After my McDonalds fiasco, I came back ready to conquer and finish the table. I had to take pictures of all the accessories and load them and add them to the chart as well. I finally did all that and saved it and was finally ready to send it to her and be done with it for good...not the case. The file was too big to send over email because of all the pictures. So because of that I had to go back and compress all the pictures, copy and paste them back into the chart, and then finally send it to her. O my gosh I've never hated computers so much but I was SO happy to be done with that chart. She also complimented me several times and said that it looked great so that did make me feel better that she appreciated my hard work. Next week we're going to start listing the items on Etsy and start calling around to local boutiques to see if they will purchase and sell some of her items. I've never done this before so it will definitely be a good learning experience in dealing with buyers and selling products to them. She even said if we sell a lot, she was thinking about giving me a cut of it...score! So I have to put my selling shoes on so I can sell her stuff for her! Hopefully I'll be good at it but we'll see haha.
Today we had a lecture on the Olympics in the morning and a "walking tour" of the site of the 2012 games. The lecture was actually really interesting and I learned a lot. Over 10,000 athletes will be here in 2012 from over 205 countries competing in 26 different sports...now that's crazy. 4 billion people will tune in to watch London become the first city to host the games 3 times as well. They took away baseball and softball for 2012 which I think is stupid and they added women's boxing....someone please explain that to me. So this "walking tour" was not really a walking tour. We walked around the sketchy neighborhood that they are building the entire Olympic park in and didn't even get to go in any of the stadiums. We saw them from a distance which was disappointing because I thought we would get to go in some of the complexes o well. The stadiums looked really cool though and it will definitely help out the area greatly so it will all be good in the end.
The new Olympic Stadium
River Island, the store I got stuff from last week, was having a one day sale so we decided to go...poor decision. Once again it was utter mass chaos. Clothes, shoes, bags, and people everywhere all over the store and the floor of the store. Shopping here is nothing but frustrating and so annoying. I couldn't find my size in anything and people bump into you like its no big deal. The line to check out was so long that even though there was a shirt I wanted, I didn't get it because I would probably still be standing in line right now to buy it. After the epic fail in River Island, we attempted to go into Zara...again nothing but frustration and rude people. I go to the dressing room to try on stuff and the guy tells me I can only take in 6. That was fine but the thing that made me mad was the fact that he just plopped my other stuff that I couldn't take to the dressing room in the pile of stuff to go back to the sales floor. He said that he couldnt guarantee that it wouldn't be put back out but I had no choice so I just tried on the stuff that I could take back as fast as possible. 5 minutes later I go to switch out my stuff and o it's gone. I asked him where it was and he says sorry I warned you that they were fast. Seriously? He knew my stuff was there and could easily put it aside or tell them not to take it but no he didn't. He didn't care at all and I thought I was going to punch him in the face. After that I went upstairs and found more stuff but didn't want to go back to the dressing room. So I did what I normally do, found a mirror and started to try on a shirt over my clothes. To my surprise another employee told me I couldn't do that and that I needed to go to the dressing room...really? At that point, I said screw it they don't deserve my business so we all left. Morale of the story Zara stinks so don't shop there. We decided to walk back because it was nice outside and needed to blow off some steam but there were so many people on the street that I don't know if it made me feel better or stressed me out more. Literally I think that all Londoners do is shop because that's what I always see them doing. It's ridiculous. Oxford Street, which is where we were, was more crowded than New York in my opinion and you know it's bad when you think something is more crazy than New York.
On the way back we stopped in Selfridges which is a massive department store hybrid because it's like a store, mall, and grocery store all wrapped in one. We went in there because another girl on our trip had found a box of Lucky Charms for 7.50 pounds....I had to see this for myself. So sure enough there it was on the shelf for 7.50 pounds...so ridiculous but funny at the same time. Here's the proof haha
We finally got back and made dinner and have been relaxing ever since. We've been trying to do research for our trip to Barcelona next weekend and possibly going to Windsor castle on Sunday. I'm so excited for Spain next weekend and I think it would be good for us to take a break from London and get out of the city to see the oldest castle in the world and just chill. Hopefully it'll happen but we'll see! Tomorrow we have an all day trip to the city of Bath and Stonehinge. I don't really know what to expect again but hopefully it will be fun since we will be gone from 10 am to 11 pm...guess we'll see haha. I'm so tired after this week though so a nice bus nap will be good. I'm happy to only work 3 days because I feel like it's the perfect amount and it was great to hang out with everyone today. I'm definitely looking forward to the weekend and spending time with my friends so hopefully it will be a good one but we're in London so I don't see how it couldn't be. Crazy to think that I've been here 2 weeks already...going back to real life is going to be hard but that's not for a while so o well! Well it's off to read and sleep because we have to be up fairly early tomorrow so cheerio!
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